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Profiles

As a beacon of law and order, Prof. Joshua Fershée has had decades of experience, not only teaching, but researching, writing, lecturing and proposing the “laws of energy” among his numerous, varied endeavors.
(Courtesy of Creighton University) 

Fueling “Power” To The People

Is climate change a hoax? When in doubt, conventional wisdom dictates we best consult the experts – luckily Omahans don’t have to search far... As a beacon of law and order, Prof. Joshua Fershée has...
The Wild Halibut fillet. The potatoes were so fresh, the fish so soft, and the tapenade made sound mockery of my senses. 
(Austin Petak / The Daily Record)

A Splendid Sea, and a Warm Autumn At Twisted Cork Bistro

When searching for the next restaurant to review, there is no difficulty in finding a door to walk through, certainly not in Omaha with its endless tide of such businesses seeming to sprout up on our...

Downtown Omaha Riverfront. (Courtesty of Greater Omaha Chamber)

Omaha Chamber’s POWER Conference Targets Workforce Recruitment, Retention

Supporting today's workforce and preparing for the future is the focus of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce's new POWER Conference on Oct. 10. Combining the best of two previous Chamber events -...
This lady had a car accident near Mahoney State Park. We helped them search for several days by driving, hiking and using the drone. A person messaged with a sighting and “Rhett” was caught.
(Courtesy of LPOOA)

Lost Pets Of Omaha Area Fetches Thousands of Happy Tails

It’s often said, love is the universal language. And, one thing is for certain, people love their pets. So there was nothing lost in translation – except the dog, and perhaps a language barrier –...
Steven Elonich, NHS Executive VP of PR, Marketing and Communications (orange shirt) and Brendan Gepson, NHS Digital Marketing Manager (yellow shirt) demonstrate how to scan pets for microchips in hopes of returning them to their rightful owners. In 2024 alone, NHS reunited 2,148 animals with their owners.
(Carla Chance / The Daily Record)

Lost Pets Nonprofit Offers Free Tips, Services

Did you know that if you “smell,” it may not please everyone, but it could help in locating your lost pet. Nor should you look a lost animal into the eye, but off to the side. Also, it would be a...

Today’s News


Spending at Varner Hall, home of the University of Nebraska’s central administration, has more than doubled over the past decade. The increases reflect the growing scope and complexity of higher education, experts said. (Dylan Widger / Flatwater Free Press)

University Of Nebraska Now Spends More On Administrators And Managers Than On Faculty

At first glance, they look like raises. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a music professor’s salary jumped $13,000 in the past decade. A University of Nebraska at Kearney political science...
Endocrinologist Dr. Manikya Kuriti and her husband, Dr. Vinay Nidadavolu, pose for a photo. The couple are H-1B doctors in Louisville who see patients in the surrounding rural communities.
 (Courtesy of Dr. Manikya Kuriti)

Trump’s New $100K Visa Fee Could Worsen State Doctor Shortages, Experts Say

In Kentucky, patients drive up to two hours to see Dr. Manikya Kuriti, one of the few endocrinologists who serve the rural communities surrounding Louisville. Kuriti’s husband, a pulmonologist,...
Members of the Pentagon press corp carry their belongings out of the Pentagon after turning in their press credentials, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025 in Washington. 
(Kevin Wolf / AP Photo)

Journalists Turn In Access Badges, Exit Pentagon Rather Than Agree To New Reporting Rules

NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the...

Gas savings from Earnify. (Courtesy of Matt Hebert)

Earnify Is Legit

I love a good deal – who doesn’t? For example, I’ve lost track of how many people I’ve recently told about my new flat top grill I just got from Sam’s Club. It’s a wannabe Blackstone, but the store’s...
A grocery store shopper passes by a newsstand in Omaha where daily papers sit for sale on Oct. 8, 2025. The Omaha World-Herald and the Lincoln Journal-Star will no longer print a Monday edition starting in early November. 
(Naomi Delkamiller / The Midwest Newsroom)

The Iowa-Based Owner Of 75 Hometown Newspapers Is In Pain. That Hurts Communities

Livia Ziskey, a college student majoring in journalism, remembers the local newspaper being delivered when she was growing up in Omaha. Her father still takes the Omaha World-Herald, although he’ll...

This Week's News


Spending at Varner Hall, home of the University of Nebraska’s central administration, has more than doubled over the past decade. The increases reflect the growing scope and complexity of higher education, experts said. (Dylan Widger / Flatwater Free Press)

University Of Nebraska Now Spends More On Administrators And Managers Than On Faculty

10/21/2025 - 12:00am
At first glance, they look like raises. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a music professor’s salary jumped $13,000 in the past decade. A University of Nebraska at Kearney political science professor’s grew by $15,000. A University of Nebraska...
Endocrinologist Dr. Manikya Kuriti and her husband, Dr. Vinay Nidadavolu, pose for a photo. The couple are H-1B doctors in Louisville who see patients in the surrounding rural communities.
 (Courtesy of Dr. Manikya Kuriti)

Trump’s New $100K Visa Fee Could Worsen State Doctor Shortages, Experts Say

10/21/2025 - 12:00am
In Kentucky, patients drive up to two hours to see Dr. Manikya Kuriti, one of the few endocrinologists who serve the rural communities surrounding Louisville. Kuriti’s husband, a pulmonologist, drives from Louisville to small hospitals an hour south...
Members of the Pentagon press corp carry their belongings out of the Pentagon after turning in their press credentials, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025 in Washington. 
(Kevin Wolf / AP Photo)

Journalists Turn In Access Badges, Exit Pentagon Rather Than Agree To New Reporting Rules

10/21/2025 - 12:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its...

Gas savings from Earnify. (Courtesy of Matt Hebert)

Earnify Is Legit

10/21/2025 - 12:00am
I love a good deal – who doesn’t? For example, I’ve lost track of how many people I’ve recently told about my new flat top grill I just got from Sam’s Club. It’s a wannabe Blackstone, but the store’s own Member’s Mark brand. Where you could easily...
A grocery store shopper passes by a newsstand in Omaha where daily papers sit for sale on Oct. 8, 2025. The Omaha World-Herald and the Lincoln Journal-Star will no longer print a Monday edition starting in early November. 
(Naomi Delkamiller / The Midwest Newsroom)

The Iowa-Based Owner Of 75 Hometown Newspapers Is In Pain. That Hurts Communities

10/21/2025 - 12:00am
Livia Ziskey, a college student majoring in journalism, remembers the local newspaper being delivered when she was growing up in Omaha. Her father still takes the Omaha World-Herald, although he’ll be getting one fewer edition starting in early...

Screenshot of the Department of Health and Human Services homepage on Oct. 14, 2025. (Courtesy of HHS website)

When Government Websites Become Campaign Tools: Blaming The Shutdown On Democrats Has Legal And Political Risks

10/20/2025 - 12:00am
For decades, federal shutdowns have mostly been budget fights. The 2025 one has become bigger than that: It’s turned into a messaging war. Official government communications, including website banners, out-of-office email replies and autogenerated...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro points at a map of the Americas during a press conference in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Sept 15, 2025. 
(Jesus Vargas / AP Photo)

Trump Confirms The CIA Is Conducting Covert Operations Inside Venezuela

10/20/2025 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday that he has authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela and said he was weighing carrying out land operations on the country. The acknowledgement of covert action in...

Nebraska advocates for medical cannabis have worked for more than 12 years, and continue to wait, for a safe, regulated system in Nebraska, after winning voter approval in November. Pictured are many longtime advocates for the effort. (Courtesy of Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana)

Nebraskans Rip Proposed Regulations On Medical Cannabis At Public Hearing

10/20/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Green shirts filled a hearing room in Lincoln full of Nebraskans who support the legalization of medical cannabis but oppose the regulations of the product proposed by the state’s new Medical Cannabis Commission. Thirty-two people...
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen before his press conference at St. Teresa Catholic School in Lincoln on Sept. 29, 2025. 
(Juan Salinas II / Nebraska Examiner)

Requests Denied: Nebraska Turns Down Records Requests On McCook-ICE Jail

10/20/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — As Nebraska moves forward in converting a McCook state prison into an ICE detention center, concerns grow about the Governor’s Office stonewalling public requests seeking more about what is going on. By late September, Gov. Jim Pillen’s...

Allegations of inappropriate sexual contact involving Kearney YRTC staff members and teens in custody at the center prompted the Douglas County Public Defender’s Office to start reviewing all cases involving its clients housed at the state-run facility. (Lori Potter / Flatwater Free Press)

Pattern Of Alleged Staff Sexual Abuse At State-Run Kearney Youth Center Emerges In Court Hearings

10/17/2025 - 12:00am
(Editor’s note: This story contains allegations of sexual abuse of children. If you suspect that a child has been abused, call 800-652-1999 or report online.) At least two staff members at the juvenile treatment center in Kearney have resigned,...

(Shutterstock)

Detroit Parents Face Fines If Their Children Break Curfew − Research Shows The Policy Could Do More Harm Than Good

10/17/2025 - 12:00am
Detroit is seeing declines in violent crime, but 33% more young people were victims of gun violence in the city so far in 2025 compared with the previous year, according to local police. Mayor Mike Duggan and the Detroit Police Department responded...

Eric Underwood, former chair of the Nebraska Republican Party and leader of the nonprofit Advocates For All Nebraskans, speaks in Lincoln on Oct 14, 2025. (Juan Salinas II / Nebraska Examiner)

Nebraska Group Starts Ballot Push For Winner-Take-All, Hand-Counting Votes

10/17/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — A nonprofit group behind a handful of Nebraska ballot initiatives announced a campaign Tuesday to gather signatures for two new ones aimed at conservative election goals. One would alter how the state awards Electoral College votes for...
Sonia Moran looks at a meadow owned by The Rock church from her patio in Castle Rock, Colo., on Friday, July 12, 2024. The church plans were to develop affordable housing on its property, drawing the ire of some of its neighbors, including Moran. 
(Thomas Peipert / AP Photo)

Can States, And A Little Bit Of Faith, Convert Church Land Into Affordable Housing?

10/16/2025 - 12:00am
Growing up in a religious family, Florida Republican state Sen. Alexis Calatayud has seen how many church communities are no longer anchored to a single building in the way they used to be. Her small prayer groups take place over chats these days,...
This circa 1855 map, made by the J.H. Colton mapmaking company of New York City, shows that Nebraska Territory covered part of present-day Colorado and most of present-day Wyoming, Montana and both Dakotas. 
(Map courtesy of the Nebraska State Historical Society)

Nebraska Territory Stretched All The Way To The Canadian Border. What If It Hadn’t Shrunk?

10/16/2025 - 12:00am
One morning after a night of one too many drinks, I gave in and passed my then 2-year-old daughter my phone to watch cartoons while I slept it off. When I woke up, Peppa Pig was nowhere to be found, but my kid had somehow managed to purchase a...

(Shutterstock)

Cyberpunk Now

10/16/2025 - 12:00am
While Mythology could be rooted in the historical past (the ancient city of Troy from the story of the “Trojan War" existed, for example, whether or not there was a human named Achilles who was dipped in a river in Hell is debatable). Those ancient...
View of the future renovated Goose building, at 13th and William Streets, is a cornerstone of a cluster of new development coming to Little Bohemia south of downtown Omaha. This is a view looking north toward downtown. The developer is hoping it will add the allure of the city’s urban core, help address “brain drain” problem and job growth lag of the metro area. 
(Courtesy of 1×2 Architecture)

$40M Little Bo Village Project Aims To Be A ‘Front Door’ To Nebraska’s Largest Downtown

10/16/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA — Under names such as Czech Village, Silver Bull and Old Town Village, Tom McLeay has been buying up properties for more than a decade in the Little Bohemia neighborhood south of Nebraska’s largest downtown business district. As head of...

This undated image shows artist Bob Ross, host of the series “The Joy of Painting.” (Bob Ross Inc. via AP)

Bob Ross Paintings To Be Auctioned To Support Public TV Stations After Federal Funding Cuts

10/15/2025 - 12:00am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for public television stations suffering from cuts in federal funding. Ross, a public television...
A lioness rests on top of a sign inside Nairobi National Park, where lions are known to roam, on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, on Jan. 10, 2019. 
(Laila Kazziha / AP Photo)

He Lives Alongside Lions In Nairobi. The Human-Wildlife Collision Is Dazzling — And Dangerous

10/15/2025 - 12:00am
KAJIADO, Kenya (AP) — This year, less than a kilometer from where I live, a girl named Peace Mwende was killed by a lion. The news hit me hard: She was 14, the same age as my youngest daughter, and the lioness responsible may have been one of the...
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado holds up tally sheets during a protest against the reelection of President Nicolás Maduro one month after the disputed presidential vote which she says the opposition won by a landslide, in Caracas, Venezuela, Aug. 28, 2024. 
(Ariana Cubillos / AP Photo)

Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado Wins The Nobel Peace Prize

10/15/2025 - 12:00am
OSLO, Norway (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in the South American nation, winning recognition as a woman “who keeps the flame of...
The pay phone outside the Pierce Telephone Co. in Pierce wasn’t working when someone tried to use it, so Jeff Kesting, the phone company’s plant manager, fixed the problem so the phone would work again. 
(Darin Epperly / Flatwater Free Press)

Death Of The Dial Tone: Nebraska’s Dwindling Pay Phones Draw Lots Of Curiosity, Few Calls

10/15/2025 - 12:00am
Lane Handke called his wife, Cathleen, the other day to tell her he was bringing home the shelves they needed to finish their cabinet. The call cost him 25 cents. Then, the Pierce physician phoned a friend in Omaha just to say hello. This call cost...

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